Re: [android-developers] getCurrentActivity()

2012-03-12 Thread Carlos Silva
this on a class that extends Activity isn't simple enough? On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 17:39, bob b...@coolfone.comze.com wrote: Why is there no static function like Activity.getCurrentActivity()? Right now, I am saving the Activity in a static variable in onCreate so I can access it easily

Re: [android-developers] Re: getCurrentActivity()

2012-03-12 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 21:12, Lew lewbl...@gmail.com wrote: Carlos Silva wrote: this on a class that extends Activity isn't simple enough? You can use 'this' in an instance, but not in a static context. Never said otherwise. And ftm, do you really think that someone that doesn't

Re: [android-developers] Giving away my book: Genius Android Marketing

2012-01-10 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 15:50, scp89 jayvanbui...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently finished writing the first full-length, android-specific book on Android Marketing. It covers tips, tricks, strategies, competitive analysis, and so much more. Everything I've learned in 2 years selling android

Re: [android-developers] How can I write a regular expression for this in android?

2011-12-15 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi You're complicating. String stripped = ; for (int i = 0; i sss1.lenght(); i++) if (sss1.charAt(i) = '0' sss1.charAt(i) = '9') stripped += sss1.charAt(i); int start = sss1.indexOf(sss0); int stop = start + sss0.lenght(); Hope it helps. BTW, this group is for Android related questions,

Re: [android-developers] any link to browse ICS code online ?

2011-11-28 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 15:26, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: it's not official, but you can browse it here: http://android.git.r3pek.org Cool! Though, out of curiosity, what does the Search field search? I

Re: [android-developers] any link to browse ICS code online ?

2011-11-27 Thread Carlos Silva
it's not official, but you can browse it here: http://android.git.r3pek.org On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:10, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Not that I am aware of, sorry. On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Dav sweetcha...@gmail.com wrote: any link to browse ICS code online ? --

Re: [android-developers] Problem with developer console (market)

2011-10-23 Thread Carlos Silva
Change the package name for the new Application. Once a package name is used, it is forever reserved and can't be used again other than for upgrades (for packages with the same signature of course). 2011/10/24 Lucas Falcão lucas.falcao...@gmail.com Hi guys, how you're doing? First, thanks for

Re: [android-developers] Android compatibility - transition from Eclipse Ganymede to Helios (/or Indigo)

2011-10-23 Thread Carlos Silva
Is it the emulator that crashes or your Application on the emulator? On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 00:28, Sylvain sylvain.louc...@gmail.com wrote: We developed an app which uses the Android API 7 (version 2.1) and the Google map library - developed in early 2010 on Ganymede. The environment cannot

Re: [android-developers] Problem with developer console (market)

2011-10-23 Thread Carlos Silva
guess im just too lazy . By the way, thaks for the quick response :D On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: Change the package name for the new Application. Once a package name is used, it is forever reserved and can't be used again other than for upgrades

Re: [android-developers] Re: setOnClickListener Problems Crashing Application

2011-10-21 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 00:53, Matt Clark mrclark32...@gmail.com wrote: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 10-21 20:52:07.157: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(11123): at tinyclark.robotics.Master.setListeners(Master.java:103) Your real problem is this ^^^ So, something on your Master.java

Re: [android-developers] Re: hiii dearssssss

2011-08-02 Thread Carlos Silva
@TreKing You only missed one thing in that class, the method should be called print() :P #win anyway :) On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 08:12, Ali Chousein ali.chous...@gmail.com wrote: Hahaha, TreKing, the trick you played in this thread was a good one :D Thumbs up :D -- You received this message

Re: [android-developers] Re: About Android 3.0 status bar hide questions

2011-07-28 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 13:26, RichardLalancette.Blogspot.com richard.lalance...@gmail.com wrote: I really need to find a way to hide and show the bottom bar. Our app needs to take over the entire screen. Try to answer this and probably you'll understand why that is a *huge* mistake: - How

Re: [android-developers] Re: About Android 3.0 status bar hide questions

2011-07-28 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 20:31, Richard Lalancette richard.lalance...@gmail.com wrote: I don't need any of those features once my app is launched. You don't, but *I* do... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-21 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:11, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: Ah!! Look at this: http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5/Android-App-Development-for/Xoom-magnetometer-Y-axis-always-reads-zero/td-p/14184 LOOL

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-20 Thread Carlos Silva
Thanks guys :) It really was the MAGNETIC_FIELD thing. Was using the wrong sensor for 4 hours and didn't notice that :( Again, thanks. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:08, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, well I think the reason Carlos' code is not working is because he needs

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-20 Thread Carlos Silva
Ah! Funny thing about the code I posted (after fixing the sensors): Xoom doesn't get updates of the Accelerometer, only from the magnetic field sensor :P Nexus 1 works ok... One more thing for struggling tonight :( On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 17:56, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: On Jul

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-20 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 23:48, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: I;ve been trying a gravity sensor and a a magnetic field sensor. Nexus One works. Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the smoothest it has ever been, but doesn't look correct. Droid 1 won't register with a gravity sensor (returns false).

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-20 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 00:12, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: After some digging, looks like my accelerometer events are getting dropped by me because they are unreliable. I filter the events on the eventlistener

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-20 Thread Carlos Silva
Ah!! Look at this: http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5/Android-App-Development-for/Xoom-magnetometer-Y-axis-always-reads-zero/td-p/14184 LOOL @ Motorola. We're already on 3.2 and the problem is still not fixed :( On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 00:27, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: On Thu

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-20 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: Ah!! Look at this: http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5/Android-App-Development-for/Xoom-magnetometer-Y-axis-always-reads-zero/td-p/14184 LOOL @ Motorola. We're already on 3.2 and the problem is still not fixed :( Ok

Re: [android-developers] Posting on facebook through my Android APP

2011-07-19 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 21:33, Duygu Kahraman duygu.kahram...@gmail.comwrote: I am working on an Android app where we enter some text in edit box and all i want to do is simply send the text which typed (i.e.., edittext.gettext()) to Facebook as my status. The important thing is i don't want

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compass and Sensor.Type_Orientation

2011-07-19 Thread Carlos Silva
but not with this method. Can you guys see something that I'm not seeing? Thanks in advance, Carlos Silva On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 00:48, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: On Jul 19, 4:14 pm, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Nathan, I actually use raw Accelerometer + Magnetometer data

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android application blocked by Market for Motorola Xoom

2011-06-28 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:22, laminina jennys.jen...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also able to install your package in my Xoom. Something that brings to my mind is which ROM version does the Xoom you have is currently using. I have the stock 3.1 with root and changed kernel. -- You received this

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android application blocked by Market for Motorola Xoom

2011-06-27 Thread Carlos Silva
Maybe it's this two permissions that messes the Xoom Wifi Only: android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE I can't install it on my Xoom either. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:51, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: It shows up for my XOOM. On Mon, Jun

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android application blocked by Market for Motorola Xoom

2011-06-27 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:06, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: Maybe it's this two permissions that messes the Xoom Wifi Only: android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE I

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android application blocked by Market for Motorola Xoom

2011-06-27 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 13:06, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:06, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: Maybe it's this two permissions that messes the Xoom Wifi Only

Re: [android-developers] Android Developer's Chat

2011-05-30 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 08:57, mpiks jonathan mpiksjonat...@gmail.comwrote: Hi to all, Is there another way one can post a problem and get solution apart from sending an email to android-developers@googlegroups.com? For example like an android developer's chat on Skype? #android-dev on

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to delete...?

2011-02-22 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:39, Abhilash baddam abhilash.androiddevelo...@gmail.com wrote: myDB.execSQL(DELETE FROM favourites where month= ' +str+ ' ); the above statement is working fine but if the *str* contains apostrophe then i am getting exception near *'s. *Otherwise working only if

Re: [android-developers] Can i put a googlemap in the middle section of my user interface???

2010-11-17 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:05, Pableras elpablosa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i need that my user interface haves 3 sections NORTH SECTION: four textviews with info about a user MIDDLE SECTION: a googlemap view with the position of the user SOUTH SECTION: a textview with time of last position,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can i put a googlemap in the middle section of my user interface???

2010-11-17 Thread Carlos Silva
How is your layout file? On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:29, Pableras elpablosa...@gmail.com wrote: i can't... im trying it but i can't create a mapview on the layout, it does not exist, and i can do a include on a layout On 17 nov, 13:09, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 17

Re: [android-developers] How to pass a Context variable from one Activity to another ?

2010-11-03 Thread Carlos Silva
check the addExtra methods on the Intent class On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:55, Emre A. Yavuz eayl...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Vinay, Yes, I meant some data of present activity. The trivial method would be using static variables as you have already mentioned in your reply. That's actually what I

Re: [android-developers] Loop an audio through microphone in Android ?

2010-10-22 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 19:07, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Nasir medmat...@gmail.com wrote: i should be able to send a recorded audio from code into it. What's the point of that? A microphone, presumably, is get audio data. If you already have said

Re: [android-developers] Locale and Orientation Problem

2010-10-20 Thread Carlos Silva
You just need *one* UI, or *two* if you want to make the app look different when in landscape. The text should be dynamic using the res/values/strings.xml file (one file for each language). See here: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/guide/topics/resources/localization.html On Wed, Oct 20,

[android-developers] Intent Filter by protocol specifier

2010-10-12 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi guys, are there any docs covering the filtering of the protocol specifier? Something like the market application does with market://, i'd like to make with my application. Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

Re: [android-developers] Intent Filter by protocol specifier

2010-10-12 Thread Carlos Silva
Thanks :) Was missing the scheme part :) On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 19:07, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: Sure http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.html#ifs Look at android:schemes On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote

Re: [android-developers] Re: On multi-accounts setting, LVL returns NOT_LICENSED.

2010-10-06 Thread Carlos Silva
This is normal since the Market only uses one account (the main/first account on the device) to associate applications with an account. So even if you have 10 Google accounts on a device, only the main one is associated with the Market. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:11, beemer mse...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Getting compass values and use it on map overlay

2010-09-14 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi Pedro, you can check how I do it in Farmácias (don't know if you know it). Here's the relevant source file: http://goo.gl/3vrj Check the onDraw Method. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 21:30, Pedro Teixeira pedroteixeir...@gmail.comwrote: Hi there, I have a marker on the map using an Overlay.. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to compare two song files?

2010-08-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 16:30, Sena Gbeckor-Kove s...@imkon.com wrote: ISn't this what Shazam does? S Yep -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To

Re: [android-developers] Re: Button State does not toggle automatically!! Help!

2010-08-23 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 13:56, Abhi abhishek.r.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kostya Ok. Let me explain further. I am changing button state by doing button.setEnabled(true or false) but, the state that the button is currently in, won't show up on the screen unless I touch the screen. That is

Re: [android-developers] add uses-permission to application via Java code

2010-07-30 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 14:09, RamaMohan rama.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: HI all, I want to add uses-permission via programatically .I want to telephone number of the device.For that i need to access the phone state.But i need to add that permission only with Java code at runtime. Is it

Re: [android-developers] Correct way to kill the application

2010-07-30 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 14:13, RamaMohan rama.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: HI all, I s there any way to kill the entire application at once.Not using with finish() or system.exit() ..all these two will kill the activity ,but not the appication. Is there any way to kill the entire application

Re: [android-developers] Retrieving XML Document from web service

2010-07-30 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 23:35, beacon indiantalkiedhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , I am trying to retrieve a XML document from web service. I am passing a soap object with a token implementing the OAuth concept and retrieving the data. But the data does not turn out to be in XML format. It

Re: [android-developers] Re: ItemizedOverlay using both onTap methods

2010-07-23 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 15:25, Pedro Teixeira pedroteixeir...@gmail.comwrote: Hello MArk, I used your NooYawk example to help build my code. I'm just having some issues changing the appearance of the onTap overlay. Is it possible to change it from a TableLayout to a RelativeLayout? This

Re: [android-developers] Android unable to play MP3 files 50ms long

2010-07-21 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:32, Mark Carter mjc1...@googlemail.com wrote: Note: I would attach the sample MP3 file, but that doesn't seem possible here. It is possible and we got your first email (with the attach) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [android-developers] Re: Udp +Tcp connection in Android

2010-07-17 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:40, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote: Actually, it is possible, but it would require custom code for both server and client dropping the UDP connection and starting up a corresponding TCP connection on agreed upon ports -- but why? The request sounds like

Re: [android-developers] Udp +Tcp connection in Android

2010-07-16 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 16:46, xuxu shlomitmay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm newbie with android. I wanted to ask if there is a possibility to create udp connection and then change to tcp connection while the emulator is client and the server's code is java. all I found at the web is or tcp

Re: [android-developers] Uninstall Updates functionality

2010-07-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:15, Mark Carter mjc1...@googlemail.com wrote: I noticed that (on Froyo) when viewing Google Maps using the Market app (or going through Manage Applications), there is a button to Uninstall Updates. I haven't seen this for any other app (but I haven't looked that hard

Re: [android-developers] How to set sync interval for accounts in pre-froyo

2010-07-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 00:48, Connick oconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know if there's a way to set the sync interval on accounts via sync adapter in pre-froyo? They've added the API to do so in 2.2 but I'm curious to know if there is a workaround in 2.0-2.1. (My backup plan

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to set sync interval for accounts in pre-froyo

2010-07-06 Thread Carlos Silva
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 23:50, baka rkabhi1...@gmail.com wrote: On Eclair, I think accounts can be synced only manually by going to Settings - Accounts - Sync Now Google accounts sync automatically :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

Re: [android-developers] Re: ItemizedOverlay using both onTap methods

2010-06-24 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 17:49, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 15, 9:15 am, tfriest tfri...@kc.rr.com wrote: Does anyone know of a better way to do this? As you've seen, the maps documentation is pretty pathetic. What I know of the onTap functions has been gleamed from trial and

Re: [android-developers] Mapping (x,y) to (latitude,longitude)

2010-06-24 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:47, Pedro Teixeira pedroteixeir...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I'm trying to get the lat/long values, from the corners of the screen. But my getProjections don't make any sense.. I mean ... mymap.getProjection().fromPixels(0, 0) or

Re: [android-developers] Android to Windows ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) via WiFi

2010-06-08 Thread Carlos Silva
Android can't connect to Ad-Hoc networks... Don't know if there's any app on the Market that allows you to do that... On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 21:40, Tim t...@mobiforms.com wrote: Is it possible for Android to connect to Windows ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) via WiFi? I have set up Windows

Re: [android-developers] Setting two setImeOptions() for a EditText

2010-05-28 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 14:41, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a editText. In this, I want to set two ImeOptions as textInput.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI); textInput.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE);

Re: [android-developers] Do I need to buy Google Maps license?

2010-05-20 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:31, Samuh samuh.va...@gmail.com wrote: I am embedding a MapView in my application which is used as a canvas to pin point a location. My question is do I need to buy a license if I publish my application as paid app in market? What is my app is free? No, and No.

Re: [android-developers] Development Phone

2010-05-15 Thread Carlos Silva
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 15:15, John Gaby jg...@gabysoft.com wrote: I am about to reach the point in my development where I need to work with a real phone, and am trying to figure out what to get. If I were to get a droid or droid incredible phone from Verizon will I be able to use that phone

Re: [android-developers] Re: testing applications on non developer's-devices

2010-05-14 Thread Carlos Silva
Buy anyone you want :) On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:07, Simone simone.russ...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know, I don't have an android device yet but I need one to test my game before releasing it. I was wondering if I had to buy the android device with android 1.6 on it, or if I could just take

Re: [android-developers] How to implement the type-to-search UI like the Contacts App used

2010-05-14 Thread Carlos Silva
On a ListActivity, getListView().setTextFilterEnabled(true); On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:07, Kaka clipse.z...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all In the built-in Contacts app, if it's the view of contact list, when you type a keyborad, it will trigger a type-to-search. However, insteading of using

Re: [android-developers] Re: testing applications on non developer's-devices

2010-05-14 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:24, Simone simone.russ...@gmail.com wrote: LOL if I can do that I don't see the point of developer phones in the first place :D ROM Customization One last question: how do I do that? Do I just plug the phone in and tell Eclipse to upload the apk there instead

Re: [android-developers] Increasing the priority of an activity

2010-05-14 Thread Carlos Silva
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:18, Soumya soumyakanti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me say this with an example. Lets say, my activity A is being executed, meanwhile another activity B gets launched. By default, activity B will come on top of activity A. My requirement is that I want to keep A on

Re: [android-developers] Some connectivity questions

2010-05-07 Thread Carlos Silva
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 15:15, draf...@gmail.com draf...@gmail.com wrote: I have a couple of questions about connectivity on Android, if anyone has any insight it would be great. What is the default when an application wants to wirelessly connect? Is it wlan? And if wlan is switched off or

[android-developers] MyLocationOverlay like class with animation

2010-05-07 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi, I'm copying the MyLocationOverlay class, because it is missing something important to my application. So I decided to reimplement it myself. I have everything working, except the animation of the dot. Here's what I have: this is from my new MyLocationOverlay class public

Re: [android-developers] Stopping other Activity from my Service..

2010-05-07 Thread Carlos Silva
2010/5/6 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com If that were possible, it'd be a massive security hole. How does taskkillers (don't) work then? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] ScrollTextView

2010-05-07 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi, I'm using the ScrollTextView class from this page ( http://bear-polka.blogspot.com/2009/01/scrolltextview-scrolling-textview-for.html ) It happens that it doesn't scroll the text and even make it disappear. Anyone used or got the same problem and can give me a hand? Thanks in advance --